He(refers to Prideaux) was also credited, despite his taste for tolerance, with a sound understanding of the criminal mind. There were several examples of this, but the most telling occurred a few days before the end of term, when Spikely discovered in Jim's waste basket a draft of the next day's examination paper, and rented it to candidates at five new pence a time. Several boys paid their shilling and spent an agonised night memorising answers by torchlight in their dormitories. But when the exam came round Jim presented a quite different paper.
'You can look at this one for nothing,' he bellowed as he sat down. And having hauled open his Daily Telegraph calmly gave himself over to the latest counsels of the juju men, which they understood to mean almost anyone with intellectual preten... (查看原文)
Jim was unaware of these associations. The fact remains that by sheerluck he had chosen the one corner of Thursgood's academy which asfar as Roach was concerned was endowed with supernaturalproperties.
Roach waited at the window but saw nothing more. Both the Alvis andthe caravan were in dead ground and if it hadn't been for the wet redtracks across the grass he might have wondered whether he haddreamed the whole thing. But the tracks were real, so when the bellwent for the end of rest he put on his Wellingtons and trudged throughthe rain to the top of the Dip and peered down and there was Jimdressed in an army raincoat and a quite extraordinary hat, broad-brimmed like a safari hat but hairy, with one side pinned up in a rakishpiratical curl and the water running off it like a gut... (查看原文)
在布里克斯顿，他们常常说他是容易招祸的。当他们围着那低低的炉火坐下来时，从吉勒姆尚未成熟但已衰老的脸上的表情来看，他们背后说他的话可能还要难听得多。
In Brixton, they used to call him accident-prone. Guillam, by the expression on his immature but ageing face, as they sat in their half circle round the meagre fire, called him a lot worse than that. (查看原文)
